Minaj has claimed that she had never heard of Tanaka or "Neu Chicago". She said the track's producer RedOne, who was also named in the lawsuit, gave her the demo for the song, but she changed the lyrics in the verses. In the lawsuit, Tanaka said that since his song had been used in multiple TV ads in Sweden and had hundreds of thousands of online plays, Minaj and her team were likely aware of it.

She's asking for it to be dismissed, or at least for the case to be moved from Chicago to California.